Osvaldorama

Nice bloke. Shite player. Good luck in your career

Stephens is the only centre back I’d actually keep if given the choice. Has the right attitude and I think he will be good in the champ. The rest are awful, have terrible attitudes or a combination of both. But I don’t think it would be hard for us to improve on any of them based on last couple of years worth of evidence.

Agree, but I think it’s because we were managed by successive frauds & they were surrounded by dross. That midfield 3 should have kept us up easily IMO. Potentially a top half midfield. Lavia is an absolutely wonderful footballer. In a better team he will absolutely thrive, I have zero doubt. He is to CDM what VVD was to CB.

Miles better than Aribo, Edozie, Elyonoussi & Adam Armstrong… For all his faults, at least he was a lower premier league level player. He got goals and assists semi-regularly, plus seemed like he gave a shit about the club. None of the above is revisionist, it was obvious.

I know it’s only preseason and you can’t judge anything from it But you would hope to see some fight or something from the players. At least trying to win/score. This is worse than Sunday league. What the fuck is going on at the club?

Classic saints

Just kicked in for me. Cmon saints

Shocking player. Glad he’s gone. Should have kept Harrison Reed and given him a chance instead of signing dross like Diallo and Clasie before that.

I think £6.5mil for Salisu would be a great deal for us. He has been utter toilet for ages. He is living off the memory of about 5 good games when he first signed. All he does is give it away and make rash challenges. Combined with his shit attitude & last year of his deal I think we are laughing at that price.

Another quality signing from them. They have a lot of work to do this window, but they seem to be doing it very well so far.

That went well

There are many things that we can slate the club for last season. Taking a punt on a young star from city’s academy isn’t one of them. He did look good at times as well. I just don’t get why fans have to slate such a young player. I think it reflects very badly on a few of you.

They didn’t expect it at all. They signed Aribo and orsic for experience in his position. Unfortunately like with all their other decisions so far they fucked it up catastrophically. You can’t blame a 19 year old for that. They did expect it with Bazunu though. Absolutely shocking management from the club to throw them both in.

This thread is genuinely unbelievable. Some melts on here are acting like a football club has never brought in a young player for the future before. He was clearly bought with the future in mind, but due to the rest of the squad being utter shite was asked to make an instant impact. Unsurprisingly it didn’t work very well. Yes he is raw, but he does have genuine pace and a great first touch. He could easily become a top player. Or he could fizzle to nothing. Depends how hard he works. But Jesus Christ I hope the young lad never goes on internet to see what the fans are saying.

You summed it up in your own post. “Kid”. Stop being so harsh on the lad

I still to this day don’t understand why we let him go in the first place. The amount of money the club has wasted over the years on absolute fucking dross, and they weren’t willing to negotiate with a club legend & leader. Sums up exactly why we got relegated. Club thinks they are too smart and don’t understand the game of football at all. His experience and leadership is irreplaceable.

You answered your own question. Moyes loves bullies in the middle of the park, not skilled players.

He looked good. Selles is a moron

How thick do you have to be to even ask a question like this? Anyone can support any team, for any reason they choose. I’m a lifelong saints fan from near Basingstoke. I chose the saints because my family were from Southampton, are massive saints fans and I’ve been going my whole life. Who the fuck are you to question who I support?

Flynn Downes agent has been at Staplewood this week apparently. So link could be real

Genuinely one of the worst posts I’ve ever seen on the internet. You must be on a different planet

Not sure about that… based on his performances this year they’ve been mugged right off. He has looked as bad as Adam Armstrong.

Whatever gave you the impression that he’s a talented coach? I feel sorry for Reading tbh, not just the financial difficulties but being saddled with this cretin as a manager.

It will be fascinating - I have complete faith in Sport Republic’s ability to make us much worse this transfer window

Watch him get 20 odd goals now